Cross-wire-fence fastener.



Patented May 7, |901. G. w. HouKE. CROSS WIRE FENCE FASTENER. (Application led Sept. 10, 1900.)

(No Model.)

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` UNITED STATES PATENT GEORGE W. HOOKER, OF FAIRLAWN, OHIO.

CROSS-WIRE-FENCE FASTEN ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 673,557, dated May 7, 1901.

Application filed September 10, 1900. Serial No. 29,858. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.:

Be it known that I, GEORGE W. HOOKER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Fairlawn, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Cross-Wire-Fence Fasteners, of which the following is a specification.

My invention has relation to improvements in devices for retaining together the wires of a fence in which a number of parallel horizontal wires are crossed at intervals by vertical wires.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and eective fastener for these wires at their points of intersection that will be cheap and easily applied.

To the aforesaid object my invention consists in the peculiar and novel construction, arrangement, and combination of parts hereinafter described and then specifically pointed out in the claims, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this speoication.

In the accompanying drawings, in which similar reference-numerals indicate like parts in the dierent views, Figure l is a view of my improved fastener open and showing the wire-channels; Fig. 2, a view of the same closed on two cross-wires; Fig. 3, a side View of the setting-tool, and Fig. 4 a top View of the same.

The fastener l is of malleable metal, either plate or cast,cruciform in shape,having in one face two channels 2 3, that cross each other at a right angle and one of which is deeper by its width than the other. On opposite sides of of each arm of this cross and alternately disposed are outwardly-projecting tongues or anges 4 5,adapted to be bent over and inclose the wires.

In operation the fastener is brought against the crossing of two wires-as, for instance, 6 7, the former of which will lie in the channel 2 and the latter in the channel 3-and the tongues 4 5 and then bent over them, as illustrated in Fig. 2, thus binding the wires in place. The binding of the tongues is accomplished by two operations of the setting-tool.

(Shown in Figs. 3 and 4.) This tool consists of two bifurcated jaws 8 9, pivoted together, provided with rearwardly-extended handles, the jaws 9 lying within the jaws 8. The internal configuration of these jaws and their arrangement are such that by laying the fastener l in the jaw 8 and bringingit up against the wires in the relative position just stated the closing of the jaws will compel the jaw 9 to bend the tongues 4 over the wire 7, and at the same time the jaws 8 will clamp upon the tongues 5 and, bending their tops, will cause them to surround and inclose the wire 7 outside of the position occupied by the tongues 4. The position vof the closing-tool is then changed to bring the jaw 8 under the part of the fastener in which the wire 6 rests, when the jaw 9 will by closing the tool bend the tongues 4 over the wire 6, and at the same time the jaws 8 will clamp upon the tongues 54 and, bending their tops, will cause them to surround and inclose ,the Wire 6 outside of the position Occupied by the tongues 4, thus effeotually binding the wires together at their point of intersection.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An improved cross-wire-fence fastener of malleable metal, cruciform in shape, having cross-channels in its face to receive the wires, with alternately-disposed tongues on each arm capable of being bent over the wires, substantially as shown and described.

2. An improved cross-wire-fence fastener of malleable metal, cruciform in shape, having cross-channels in its face, one deeper than the other, to receive the wires, with alternately-disposed tongues on each arm capable of being bent over the wires, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the above I hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

GEORGE W. HOOKER.

In presence of- C. HUMBHREY,

Bassin CROOK. 

